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Introduction : Nationality, Race, and Mixed Families in the Soviet Union -- Intermarriage and Soviet Social Science -- "I'll Marry Her or No One" : Falling in Love Across Ethnic Lines -- Scenes from Happy (And Not So Happy) Mixed Marriages -- Intermarriage and the "Eastern Woman" -- Mixed People : Dilemmas of Identity and Belonging -- Tatiana or Akbota? Naming Mixed Children -- A Tale of Three Generations : Mixed Families and the Russian Language -- After the Soviet Collapse : Mixed Families in a New Era -- Conclusion : Remembering Soviet Internationalism.

Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples sheds light on the racialization of identities and its impact on mixed couples and families in the Soviet Union. In marked contrast to its Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union celebrated mixed marriages among its diverse ethnic groups as a sign of the unbreakable friendship of peoples and the imminent emergence of a single "Soviet people." Yet the official Soviet view of ethnic nationality became increasingly primordial and even racialized beginning in the 1960s, and in this context, Adrienne Edgar argues that mixed families and individuals found it impossible to transcend ethnicity, fully embrace their complex identities, and become simply "Soviet." Looking back on their lives in the Soviet Union, ethnically mixed people often reported that the "official" nationality in their identity documents did not match their subjective feelings of identity, that they were unable to speak "their own" native language, and that their ambiguous physical appearance prevented them from claiming the nationality with which they most identified. In all these ways, mixed couples and families were acutely and painfully affected by the growth of ethnic primordialism and by the tensions between the national and supranational projects in the Soviet Union. Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples is based on more than eighty in-depth oral history interviews with members of mixed families in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, along with published and unpublished Soviet documents, scholarly and popular articles from the Soviet press, memoirs and films, and interviews with Soviet-era sociologists and ethnographers

"Edgar and Frommer bring together international and interdisciplinary scholarship to analyze interethnic and interracial marriage in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Central Asia"--

In 1917 Turkmenistan was a vague collection of semi-nomadic tribes under Russian domination. This book explores the creation of a Turkmen nation, partly Soviet policy & partly the evolution of indigenous notions of identity. The author offers a scholarly analysis of Soviet nation building in Asia.

Despite the common origins and themes of the Syrian and Egyptian Islamic movements, the goals, tactics, socioeconomic composition of the membership, and even the ideology of these groups are to a large degree functions of specific local conditions or responses to specific state policies and cannot be adequately explained by generalized theories of Islamic resurgence. The differences between the Islamic movements of Syria and Egypt can be attributed to variations in state structure and policy between the two countries. (DÜI-Hns)

Pianciola, Niccolò ; Sartori, Paolo: Waqf in Turkestan : the colonial legacy and the fate of an Islamic institution in early Soviet Central Asia, 1917-1924. - S. 465-473 Teichmann, Christian: Canals, cotton, and the limits of de-colonization in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1924-1941. - S. 475-498 The reconquest of East Bukhara : the struggle against the Basmachi as a prelude to Sovietization. - S.521-538 Kale-Lostuvali, Elif: Varieties of musical nationalism in Soviet Uzbekistan. - S. 539-558 Sahadeo, Jeff: Druzhba Narodov or second-class citizenship? Soviet Asian migrants in a post-colonial world. - S. 559-679 Edgar, Adrienne Lynn: Marriage, modernity, and the "friendship of nations" : interethnic intimacy in post-war Central Asia in comparative perspective. - S. 581-599 Kandiyoti, Deniz: The politics of gender and the Soviet paradox : neither colonized, nor modern? S. 601-623